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Chloridoideae, Eragrostideae, see Fundamenta Agros-

tographiae 143, t. 12. 1820, Flora italiana, ossia descri- zione delle piante … 1: 461. 1848, Traité des Graminées

134. 1854 and Novosti Sist. Vyss. Rast. 1966: 25. 1966.

Aeluropus Trin. = Aelbroeckia De Moor,

Calotheca Desv. ex Spreng., Calotheca Desv.,

Chamaedactylis T.F.L. Nees

Greek ailouros “a cat, a weasel” and pous “foot,” Latin

aelurus “a cat,” referring to the nature of the spikes.

Some 3-5/10 species, Mediterranean, northern China, India, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka. Chloridoideae, Eragrostideae, peren- nial, low, tough, rigid, herbaceous, decumbent, halophytes, much-branched, toughly rhizomatous or stoloniferous, cae- spitose, leaf blades often distichous, auricles absent, ligule a very short membrane fringed with hairs, leaves linear often pungent, plants bisexual, inflorescence spicate to cap- itate, a densely flowered head, florets bisexual, spikelets sessile and solitary, 2 glumes unequal and mucronate, lower glume 1-3-nerved, upper glume 5-7 nerved, lemmas mucro- nate and chartaceous, palea 3-lobed, 2 free and fleshy lod- icules, 3 stamens, ovary glabrous, 2 stigmas, valuable fodder, open habitats, dry saline areas, sand of seashores, salt flats and deserts, type Aeluropus laevis Trin., see Spe-

cies Plantarum 1: 66-71, 73-76. 1753, Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris

2: 190. 1810, Anleitung zur Kenntniss der Gewächse 2(1): 167. 1817, Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778-1844), Funda-

menta Agrostographiae. 143, t. 12. Viennae (Jan) 1820,

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Genera Plantarum Florae Germanicae iconibus et descrip-

tionibus illustrata … Bonnae [1833-] 1835-1860, Traité des

Graminées 134. 1854 and Grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India and Pakistan 379-381. 1960, Novosti Sist. Vyss. Rast. 1966:

25. 1966, Fitologija 39: 72-77. 1991, S. Khatoon & S.I. Ali,

Chromosome Atlas of the Angiosperms of Pakistan. Karachi

1993 [University of Karachi, Department of Botany],

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 81(4): 784-791.

1994.

Species

A. brevifolius (J. König ex Willd.) Nees ex Asch. (Aeluro-

pus brevifolius Nees ex Steud.; Aeluropus brevifolius Trin.

ex Wall.; Aeluropus brevifolius (J. König ex Willd.) Nees ex Asch. & Schweinf.; Aeluropus lagopoides (L.) Trin. ex Thwaites; Dactylis brevifolia J. König ex Willd.; Eleusine

brevifolia (J. König ex Willd.) R. Br. ex Hook.f., nom. illeg.,

non Eleusine brevifolia (Hochst. & Nees) Steud.; Koeleria

brevifolia Spreng.; Poa brevifolia (J. König ex Willd.)

Kunth, nom. illeg., non Poa brevifolia DC.)

Egypt. See Systema Naturae, edition 12 2: 95. 1767, De

Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum … 1: 7. 1788, Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 1: 410. 1797, Syn. Pl. 1: 97. 1805, Plantarum Minus Cognitarum Pugillus 2: 21. 1815, Révi- sion des Graminées 1: 111. 1829, Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda 1: 30. 1840, A Numerical List of Dried Specimens no. 8897. 1849, Enumeratio Plantarum Zeyla- niae 374. 1864, Mémoires de l’Institut Égyptien 2: 173.

1889 and Annuario del Reale Istituto Botanico di Roma 8(1): 70. 1903.

A. lagopoides (L.) Thw. (Aeluropus brevifolius Nees ex

Steud.; Aeluropus brevifolius Trin. ex Wall.; Aeluropus

brevifolius (J. König ex Willd.) Nees ex Asch. & Schweinf.; Aeluropus brevifolius var. longifolius Chiov.; Aeluropus brevifolius var. pygmaeus A. Terracc. ex Chiov.; Aeluropus concinnus Fig. & De Not.; Aeluropus erythraeus (A. Ter-

racc.) Mattei; Aeluropus erythraeus var. scandens Terracc.;

Aeluropus laevis Trin.; Aeluropus lagopodioides (L.) Trin.

ex Thwaites; Aeluropus lagopoides (L.) Trin. ex Thw.;

Aeluropus lagopoides (L.) Chiov.; Aeluropus lagopoides

var. lagopoides; Aeluropus littoralis var. repens (Desf.) Cos- son & Durand; Aeluropus massauensis (Fresen.) Mattei;

Aeluropus mucronatus var. erythraeus A. Terracc.; Aeluro- pus niliacus (Spreng.) Steud.; Aeluropus repens (Desf.)

Parl.; Aeluropus villosus Trin.; Aeluropus villosus Trin. ex C.A. Meyer; Calotheca niliaca Spreng.; Calotheca repens (Desf.) Spreng.; Coelachyropsis lagopoides Bor; Dactylis

brevifolia J. König ex Willd.; Dactylis lagopodioides Dal-

zell & A. Gibson; Dactylis lagopoides L.; Dactylis repens Desf.; Koeleria lagopoides (L.) Panz. ex Spreng.; Poa

lagopodoides (L.) Kunth; Poa massauensis Fresen.; Poa repens (Desf.) M. Bieb.; Poa tunetana Spreng.; Sesleria lagopoides (L.) Spreng.) (Greek lagos “a hare”)

Southern India, Northeast Africa, Mediterranean. Perennial, variable, erect, harsh or pruinose, much-branched, shrubby, sometimes densely tufted, mat-forming, with woody root- stock, with scaly rhizomes and strongly stoloniferous, creeping, sometimes with long prostrate stems rooting at the nodes, leaf blades tough, ligule a ring of hairs, pungent leaves narrow and rigid, inflorescence capitate, 1 ovoid raceme, spikelets elliptic-oblong and curling, florets closely imbricate, glumes hirsute or villous, lower glume ovate- oblong and subacute, lemmas villous on the margins, of some fodder value, good grazing for all stocks, extremely salt-tolerant, useful for erosion control, abundant along the seashores, salt pans, sea littoral, sandy seashores, foreshore sand dunes, seasonally flooded salt plains, salt marshes and saline areas, subkhah, dry saline places, in low moist areas, dry hillsides, saline plains, sandy soils, heavily grazed sites, inhospitable saline soils, see Flora Carniolica 189. 1760,

Mantissa 1: 33. 1767, Systema Naturae, edition 12 2: 95.

1767, Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 1: 410. 1797, Flora

Atlantica 1: 79, t. 15. 1798, Plantarum Minus Cognitarum Pugillus 2: 20, 22. 1815, Fundamenta Agrostographiae 143,

t. 12. 1820, Systema Vegetabilium, editio decima sexta 1: 332, 347-348. 1825, Révision des Graminées 1: 111. 1829,

Verzeichniss der Pflanzen, … des Caspischen Meeres … 18.

St. Petersburg 1831, Museum Senckenbergianum 2: 143. 1837, Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda 1: 30. 1840,

Flora italiana, ossia descrizione delle piante … 1: 461-462.

1848, A Numerical List of Dried Specimens no. 8897. 1849 [Wallich’s Catalogue], Memorie della Reale Accademia

delle Scienze di Torino, ser. 2 12: 257. 1852, Exploration Scientifique de l’Algérie 2: 155. 1855, The Bombay Flora … 298. 1861, George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1812-

1882) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), Enumeratio

plantarum zeylaniae: an enumeration of Ceylon plants 5:

374. London [1858-] 1864, Beitrag zur Flora Aethiopiens 297, 310. Berlin 1867, Mémoires de l’Institut Égyptien 2: 173. 1889, Annuario del Reale Istituto Botanico di Roma 5: 96. 1893, The Flora of British India 7(22): 294, 334. 1897 [1896] and Henry Trimen (1843-1896), A Handbook

to the Flora of Ceylon 5: 304. 1900, Annuario del Reale Istituto Botanico di Roma 8(1): 70. 1903, Annuario del Reale Istituto Botanico di Roma 8: 375. 1908, Boll. Orto Botanico di Palermo 9: 63. 1910, Flora Taurico-Caucasica

3: 69. 1918, Hand. Fl. Ceylon 6: 340. London 1931, Grasses

of Ceylon 45. 1956, Ceylon Journal of Science, Biological Sciences 2(2): 122. 1959, Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 75: 23, 25. 1971[1972], Taxon 49(2): 250.

2000, M. Ajmal Khan & Salman Gulzar, “Light, salinity, and temperature effects on the seed germination of peren- nial grasses.” American Journal of Botany 90: 131-134. 2003.

in Spanish: mamoncillo in Somalia: garo in Yemen: kirshah

30 Aeluropus Trin.

in India: kadal arugam pul, puvvu gaddi

in Thailand: luk yon phra in, luuk yon phra in, ya luk lom, yaa luuk lom

A. littoralis (Gouan) Parl. (Aeluropus littoralis subsp.

kuschkensis Tzvelev; Aeluropus pungens (M. Bieb.)

C. Koch; Calotheca litoralis (Gouan) Spreng.; Chamaedac-

tylis maritima (Schrader) T. Nees; Dactylis littoralis

(Gouan) Willd.; Dactylis maritima Schrad., nom. illeg., non

Dactylis maritima Curtis; Festuca littoralis (Gouan) Sibth.

& Sm., nom. illeg., non Festuca littoralis Labill.; Melica

littoralis (Gouan) Raspail; Poa littoralis Gouan; Poa pun- gens M. Bieb., nom. illeg., non Poa pungens Georgi)

Asia, Iran, Russia, Europe. Perennial, brittle, sod-forming, useful for erosion control, good grazing value, golf course rough, found in moist places, in saline areas, in very dry situations, in low places in salty areas, drainage areas, shal- low soil, heavy clay soil, see Antoine Gouan (1733-1821),

Flora Monspeliaca 470. Lyon 1765, Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 1: 408. 1797, Florae Graecae Prodromus 1:

61. 1806, Flora Germanica 1: 313. 1806, Flora Taurico-

Caucasica 1: 65. 1808, Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) 5: 443. 1825, Systema Vegetabilium, editio decima sexta 1: 347. 1825, Linnaea 21(4): 408. 1848, Flora ital- iana, ossia descrizione delle piante … 1: 461. 1848.

in French: pied de chat in Morocco: senboul-ef-far

A. macrostachyus Hack. (Aeluropus grandiflorus Munro;

Aeluropus monostachyus Hack. ex Bor; Catapodium pun- gens Boiss.)

Asia, Afghanistan, India. See Hortus Regius Botanicus

Berolinensis 1: 44, 280. 1827, Catalogue of the plants dis- tributed at the Royal Gardens, Kew … from the herbaria of

Griffith, Falconer, and Helfer. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [London] 1865, Flora Orientalis 5: 635. 1884 and Öster-

reichische Botanische Zeitschrift 52(10): 374. 1902.

A. micrantherus Tzvelev (Aeluropus littoralis subsp.

micrantherus (Tzvelev) Tzvelev; Aeluropus littoralis var. micrantherus (Tzvelev) K.L. Chang)

China, Russia, Mongolia. Procumbent or ascending, branched, leaf blades flat or involute, leaf sheaths glabrous and pilose, ligule usually pilose, inflorescence spike-like, compact congested racemes, spikelets ovate, glumes sca- brous, lemmas ovate or broadly ovate, along water courses, on hill slopes, desert, in sandy places, see Zlaki SSSR 621. 1976, Flora in Desertis Reipublicae Populorum Sinarum 1: 42. 1985.

in China: wei yao zhang mao

A. pilosus (X.L. Yang) S.L. Chen & H.L. Yang (Aeluropus

littoralis var. pilosus H.L. Yang; Aeluropus pilosus (H.L.

Yang) S.L. Chen)

China. Erect or decumbent, densely pubescent, leaf sheaths densely pubescent, leaf blades flat or involute, leaves hispid to densely pubescent, ligule margin ciliate, rhizomes and stolons present, inflorescence spike-like, racemes solitary, spikelets distichous, glumes pubescent and hispid, lemmas apex cuspidate, palea keels hispid, desert sand, see Acta

Botanica Yunnanica 5(1): 74, pl. 1, f. 9-16. 1983, Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae 10(1): 8. 1990.

in China: mao ye zhang mao

A. pungens (M. Bieb.) K. Koch (Aeluropus littoralis

(Gouan) Parl.; Aeluropus littoralis subsp. pungens (M. Bieb.) Tzvelev; Aeluropus pungens (Vahl) Boiss., nom. illeg., non Aeluropus pungens (M. Bieb.) Koch; Festuca

pungens Vahl; Poa pungens M. Bieb., nom. illeg., non Poa pungens Georgi)

Europe, Russia, Caucasus. Perennial, erect or decumbent, usually branched at base, leaf sheaths glabrous, leaf blades flat or involute, ligule very short with margin ciliate, rhi- zomatous, inflorescence spike-like, racemes solitary and rather spaced, lemmas with membranous ciliate margins, good forage species, drought resistant, turf, heavy clay loam soil, bank of irrigation canal, alkaline soil, highly salty soils, sandy places, see Symbolae Botanicae, … 1: 10, t. 2. 1790,

Flora Taurico-Caucasica 1: 65. 1808, Linnaea 21(4): 408.

1848, Flora italiana, ossia descrizione delle piante … 1: 461. 1848, Flora Orientalis 5: 595. 1884 and Novosti Sist.

Vyss. Rast. 8: 73. 1971.

in China: xiao zhang mao

A. pungens (M. Bieb.) K. Koch var. hirtulus S.L. Chen &

X.L. Yang

China. Leaf blades densely hirsute, glumes sparsely gla- brous, desert sand, see Bulletin of Botanical Research (Har- bin) 4(2): 123-124. 1984.

in China: ci ye zhang mao

A. pungens (M. Bieb.) K. Koch var. pungens (Aeluropus

littoralis subsp. pungens (M. Bieb.) Tzvelev; Poa pungens

M. Bieb.)

China, Eurasia. Leaf blades glabrous, glumes margins cil- iate, bank of irrigation canal, alkaline soil, highly salty soils, sandy places.

in China: xiao zhang mao

A. sinensis (Debeaux) Tzvelev (Aeluropus littoralis subsp.

sinensis (Debeaux) Tzvelev; Aeluropus littoralis var. sinen- sis Debeaux)

China. Nodes more or less pubescent, leaf blades flat, leaf sheaths glabrous and pilose, inflorescence spike-like, com- pact congested racemes, glumes and lemmas glabrous or scabrous, see Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 33: 73. 1879 and Zlaki SSSR 621. 1976.

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